System and method of developing a search database for automated content curation

ABSTRACT

The present disclosure describes a system and method of developing a search database for automated content curation. The processing arrangement is configured to store a plurality of slides related to one or more fields in the database arrangement, generate a plurality of thumbnails from the stored plurality of slides, extract a plurality of metadata from the plurality of thumbnails, wherein the plurality of metadata are extracted by processing the generated plurality of thumbnails through an optical character reader, store the extracted plurality of metadata into the search database, create an index comprising of associations between the plurality of slides, the plurality of associated metadata and the generated plurality of thumbnails, store the created index in the search database and curate content from the index of the search database based on the one or more search strings.

FIELD OF INVENTION

In general, the present disclosure is related to a system and method ofdeveloping a search database for automated content curation. Inparticular, the invention disclosed in the present disclosure relates toa system and method for the content management from content collectionto content accessibility for future re-use and adding values to itthroughout its lifecycle.

BACKGROUND

Content collection, curation and management is critical to the socialand organizational research process. When implemented correctly, contentcuration process enhances the quality of operations being carried out inan organization. The content curation including content collection,processing and management enhances the quality of a research study.However, the curation of relevant contextual content from a content-setcontaining vast amount of findings including research papers,publications, presentations, test results and so forth, is a cumbersomeand time-consuming task. Manual content curation including contentcollection, content accessibility and content identification makes therelevant content items prone to errors as the user has to go manuallythrough numerous irrelevant content items to reach the relevant result.In addition to it, there may be errors caused during the manual contententry of various content data while manually changing content data. Thiscan lead to significant negative consequences if the analysis is used toinfluence decisions. Another issue encountered in content changemanagement or content curation is the presence of asymmetrical content:when information in the system in the database is left outdated.Furthermore, there exists no such tool in conventional contentmanagement system essentially related to a practical user feedbackmechanism that can be widely used in an organization for collaborationbetween different companies or teams.

The essential part for a content curation process involves contentcollection, wherein the user has to search for a relevant content in thesearch database via a search query and retrieve relevant content.However, while searching for the relevant content from the databasearrangement, a user may lack sufficient skill or information toformulate a query to search the database effectively. In addition, eachsearch of the database may consume a significant amount of time andprocessing energy of the system. The use of the significant amount oftime may deter a user from developing a complete query or a thorough setof queries. The user may be encouraged to take shortcuts in generating aquery. As a result, the quality of a query generated by a user and/or anumber of queries may be limited, and a desired information may beunavailable. Also, when free-form or even full text search is used overa large corpus, a voluminous amount of possible search results are stillretrieved that may require the user to quickly and efficiently sortthrough these many options. In majority of the instances, this canbecome a cumbersome and tedious task for the user.

Therefore, in light of the foregoing discussion, there exists a need toovercome the aforementioned drawbacks in the content curation fromcontent collection, processing to content accessibility and addingvalues to the content throughout its lifecycle.

SUMMARY

An object of the present disclosure is to provide a system of developinga search database for automated content curation.

Another object of the present disclosure is to provide a method ofdeveloping a search database for automated content curation.

Another object of the present disclosure is to provide an automatedsystem that undergoes the content curation tasks namely, contentcollection, processing to content accessibility for future re-use andadding values to the content throughout its lifecycle.

In an aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system ofdeveloping a search database for automated content curation, wherein thesystem comprises:

-   a processing arrangement comprising a communication interface for    accessing a computer network and a database arrangement, wherein the    processing arrangement is configured to:    -   store a plurality of slides related to one or more fields in the        database arrangement;    -   generate a plurality of thumbnails from the stored plurality of        slides;    -   extract a plurality of metadata from the plurality of        thumbnails, wherein the plurality of metadata is extracted by        processing the generated plurality of thumbnails through an        optical character reader;    -   store the extracted plurality of metadata into the search        database;    -   create an index comprising of associations between the plurality        of slides, the plurality of associated metadata and the        generated plurality of thumbnails, wherein one or more relevant        slides are retrieved in response to one or more search strings        via said associations between the plurality of slides, the        plurality of associated metadata and the generated plurality of        thumbnails;    -   store the created index in the search database; and    -   curate a plurality of content from the index of the search        database based on one or more search strings.

Optionally, the processing arrangement is configured to generate aplurality of thumbnails by extracting one or more features of theplurality of slides via at least one of an object recognition algorithm,an image recognition algorithm, and a text recognition algorithm.

Optionally, the plurality of metadata extracted from the plurality ofthumbnails is stored in an elastic search database. Optionally, theprocessing arrangement is configured to store the created index in oneor more of elastic search databases.

Optionally, the processing arrangement employs the plurality of metadataextracted from the generated plurality of thumbnails to retrieve the oneor more relevant slides via fuzzy logic.

Optionally, the processing arrangement generates a plurality ofthumbnails via an app-script based code.

Optionally, the processing arrangement receives the one or more searchstrings via a user’s input and retrieves the one or more slides via theindex stored in the search database, in response to the one or moresearch strings.

Optionally, the processing arrangement receives a user’s selection ofthe one or more slides from the retrieved plurality of the one or moreslides and curate the plurality of content by copying the selected oneor more slides from a source location to a curated file at a targetlocation, wherein a linking of the copied one or more slides at thetarget location is established with the one or more slides at the sourcelocation.

Optionally, the processing arrangement dispatches a communication to theuser with the target location of the curated file.

Optionally, the processing arrangement is configured to receive afurther selection of the one or more slides and add the selected one ormore slides at an end of the curated file.

Optionally, the processing arrangement is configured to create an arrayof added content in the curated file, wherein the array acts as an indexfor the added content.

Optionally, the processing arrangement enables one or more users tosuggest changes in the one or more slides stored in the databasearrangement.

Optionally, the processing arrangement is configured to transmit acommunication to an administrator of the one or more slides when the oneor more users suggest changes in the one or more slides.

Optionally, the processing arrangement is configured to transmit aresponse communication to the one or more users stating a status of thesuggested changes to the one or more slides.

In a second aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide amethod of developing a search database for automated content curation,wherein the method comprises:

-   storing a plurality of slides related to one or more fields in the    database arrangement;-   generating a plurality of thumbnails from the stored plurality of    slides;-   extracting a plurality of metadata from the plurality of thumbnails,    wherein the plurality of metadata is extracted by processing the    generated plurality of thumbnails through an optical character    reader;-   storing the extracted plurality of metadata into the search    database;-   creating an index comprising of associations between the plurality    of slides, the plurality of associated metadata and the generated    plurality of thumbnails, wherein one or more relevant slides are    retrieved in response to one or more search strings via said    associations between the plurality of slides, the plurality of    associated metadata and the generated plurality of thumbnails;-   storing the created index in the search database; and-   curating a plurality of content from the index of the search    database based on one or more search strings.

Optionally, the method comprises generating a plurality of thumbnails byextracting one or more features of the plurality of slides via at leastone of an object recognition algorithm, an image recognition algorithmand a text recognition algorithm.

Optionally, the plurality of metadata extracted from the plurality ofthumbnails is stored in an elastic search database.

Optionally, the method comprises storing the created index in one ormore elastic search databases.

Optionally, the method comprises employing the plurality of metadataextracted from the generated plurality of thumbnails to retrieve the oneor more relevant slides via fuzzy logic.

Optionally, the method comprises generating a plurality of thumbnailsvia an app-script based code.

Optionally, the method comprises receiving the one or more searchstrings via a user’s input and retrieving the one or more slides via theindex stored in the search database, in response to the one or moresearch strings.

Optionally, the method comprises receiving a user’s selection of the oneor more slides from the retrieved plurality of the one or more slidesand curating the plurality of content by copying the selected one ormore slides from a source location to a curated file at a targetlocation, wherein a linking of the copied one or more slides at thetarget location is established with the one or more slides at the sourcelocation.

Optionally, method comprises dispatching a communication to the userwith the target location of the curated file.

Optionally, the method comprises receiving a further selection of theone or more slides and adding the selected one or more slides at an endof the curated file.

Optionally, the method comprises creating an array of added content inthe curated file, wherein the array acts as an index for the addedcontent.

Optionally, the method comprises enabling one or more users to suggestchanges in the one or more slides stored in the database arrangement.

Optionally, the method comprises transmitting a communication to anadministrator of the one or more slides when the one or more userssuggest changes in the one or more slides.

Optionally, the method comprises transmitting a response communicationto the one or more users stating a status of the suggested changes tothe one or more slides.

In a third aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide anon-transitory computer readable storage medium, containing programinstructions for execution on a computer system, which when executed bya computer, cause the computer to perform method steps of a method ofdeveloping a search database for automated content curation, the methodcomprising the steps of:

-   storing a plurality of slides related to one or more fields in the    database arrangement;-   generating a plurality of thumbnails from the stored plurality of    slides;-   extracting a plurality of metadata from the plurality of thumbnails,    wherein the plurality of metadata is extracted by processing the    generated plurality of thumbnails through an optical character    reader;-   storing the extracted plurality of metadata into the search    database;-   creating an index comprising of associations between the plurality    of slides, the plurality of associated metadata and the generated    plurality of thumbnails, wherein one or more relevant slides are    retrieved in response to one or more search strings via said    associations between the plurality of slides, the plurality of    associated metadata and the generated plurality of thumbnails;-   storing the created index in the search database; and-   curating a plurality of content from the index of the search    database based on one or more search strings.

Additional aspects, advantages, features and objects of the presentdisclosure would be made apparent from the drawings and the detaileddescription of the illustrative embodiments construed in conjunctionwith the appended claims that follow.

It will be appreciated that features of the present disclosure aresusceptible to being combined in various combinations without departingfrom the scope of the present disclosure as defined by the appendedclaims.

A better understanding of the present invention may be obtained throughthe following examples which are set forth to illustrate but are not tobe construed as limiting the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

The summary above, as well as the following detailed description ofillustrative embodiments, is better understood when read in conjunctionwith the appended drawings. For the purpose of illustrating the presentdisclosure, exemplary constructions of the disclosure are shown in thedrawings. However, the present disclosure is not limited to specificmethods and instrumentalities disclosed herein. Moreover, those in theart will understand that the drawings are not to scale. Whereverpossible, like elements have been indicated by identical numbers.

Embodiments of the present disclosure will now be described, by way ofexample only, with reference to the following diagrams wherein:

FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of a system of developing a searchdatabase for automated content curation, in accordance with anembodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic illustration of a flow diagram of the contentmovement architecture of the automated content curation system, inaccordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of a flow diagram of content changemanagement of the automated content curation system, in accordance withan embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a schematic illustration of the system, in accordance with anembodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5 a schematic illustration of a flow diagram of a method ofdeveloping a search database for automated content curation, inaccordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.

In the accompanying drawings, an underlined number is employed torepresent an item over which the underlined number is positioned or anitem to which the underlined number is adjacent. A non-underlined numberrelates to an item identified by a line linking the non-underlinednumber to the item. When a number is non-underlined and accompanied byan associated arrow, the non-underlined number is used to identify ageneral item to which the arrow is pointing.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

The following detailed description illustrates embodiments of thepresent disclosure and ways in which they can be implemented. Althoughsome modes of carrying out the present disclosure have been disclosed,those skilled in the art would recognise that other embodiments forcarrying out or practising the present disclosure are also possible.

In an aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system ofdeveloping a search database for automated content curation, wherein thesystem comprises:

-   a processing arrangement comprising a communication interface for    accessing a computer network and a database arrangement, wherein the    processing arrangement is configured to:    -   store a plurality of slides related to one or more fields in the        database arrangement;    -   generate a plurality of thumbnails from the stored plurality of        slides;    -   extract a plurality of metadata from the plurality of        thumbnails, wherein the plurality of metadata is extracted by        processing the generated plurality of thumbnails through an        optical character reader;    -   store the extracted plurality of metadata into the search        database;    -   create an index comprising of associations between the plurality        of slides, the plurality of associated metadata and the        generated plurality of thumbnails, wherein one or more relevant        slides are retrieved in response to one or more search strings        via said associations between the plurality of slides, the        plurality of associated metadata and the generated plurality of        thumbnails;    -   store the created index in the search database; and    -   curate a plurality of content from the index of the search        database based on one or more search strings.

The present disclosure provides the aforementioned automated contentcuration system that is designed to store, retrieve, define, edit andmanage data in a database in an efficient way. Said content curationsystem also known as knowledge management solution, is built to enablebetter cross-functional content collaboration amongst different teams.The content curation system as defined herein generally provides the“content explorer” service to its consumers. In “content explorer”, theuser can find and create custom decks from the slides repository asprovided by the content management tool.

In an exemplary embodiment, the present disclosure describes a system ofautomated content curation that involves creating a deck including acompiled file of a plurality of slides. For the automated creation ofdecks, i.e., automated content curation, the system involves receiving auser’s input in the form of a search query and retrieving one or moreslides (content) from the search database, in response to the searchquery. The retrieved one or more slides are displayed on a userinterface. Furthermore, the system allows one or more users to selectone or more slides from the plurality of slides and compile the selectedone or more slides, and thereby creating a deck of the compiledplurality of slides. It will be appreciated that the term “automatedcontent curation” refers to the creation of a deck of a plurality ofcontent. In another embodiment, the term “automated content curation”refers to the creation of a deck of a plurality of slides related to oneor more fields. In yet another embodiment, the term “automated contentcuration” refers to creation of deck of a plurality of slides that areparticularly selected by one or more users via the user interface.

In order to provide an efficient content curation, the system involvesdeveloping a search database and retrieve via the developed searchdatabase, one or more relevant content in response to a user’s query orsearch strings. The invention as described herein the present disclosureinvolves searching the relevant content through the metadata of thegenerated thumbnail of the content instead of the content itself,thereby saving a lot of processing energy while searching for therelevant content in the search database, resulting into a more efficientsystem. Furthermore, the time required to retrieve data content is alsoreduced herein.

The system as described herein comprises a “database arrangement”.Throughout the present disclosure, the term “database arrangement” asused herein, relates to an organized body of digital informationregardless of a manner in which the data or the organized body thereofis represented. Optionally, the database arrangement may be hardware,software, firmware and/or any combination thereof. For example, theorganized body of digital information may be in a form of a table, amap, a grid, a packet, a datagram, a file, a document, a list or in anyother form. The plurality of databases includes any data storagesoftware and systems, such as, for example, a relational database likeIBM DB2®, Google Cloud and Oracle 9®. Furthermore, the databasearrangement also includes a software program for creating and managingone or more databases. Optionally, the database arrangement may beoperable to support relational operations, regardless of whether itenforces strict adherence to a relational model, as understood by thoseof ordinary skill in the art. Additionally, the database arrangement ispopulated by the elastic search libraries, elastic search databases, atleast one relevant data element, topic-based web content and the likes.Optionally, the database arrangement is populated by the operationaldata associated with the URIs, URLs and/or URNs and their relatedinformation.

According to the invention as described herein the present disclosure,the system comprises a processing arrangement. Throughout the presentdisclosure, the term “processing arrangement” as used herein relates toat least one programmable or computational entity configured to acquireprocess and/or respond to instructions for data curation. For example,the computational entity may include a memory, a network adapter and thelikes. In another example, the processing arrangement includes, but arenot limited to, a microprocessor, a microcontroller, a complexinstruction set computing (CISC) microprocessor, a reduced instructionset (RISC) microprocessor, a very long instruction word (VLIW)microprocessor, or any other type of processing circuit for executingdata management and curation instructions. Furthermore, the processingarrangement includes one or more individual processors, processingdevices and various elements of a computer system associated with aprocessing device that may be shared by other processing devices.Additionally, one or more individual processors, processing devices, andelements are arranged in various architectures for responding to andprocessing the instructions that drive the system for curation of eithercurated and/or non-curated data.

Moreover, the data processing arrangement is configured to host computerprograms and/or routines that provide various services. For example, theservices may include providing connectivity between the modules of thesystem, generating an interface to enable receiving input to the system,processing the extracted data, compiling it as a compiled file,providing a platform for search libraries or elastic search libraries,and so forth.

According to the present disclosure, the processing arrangementcomprises the “communication interface” for accessing a computernetwork. Throughout the present disclosure, the term “communicationinterface” as used herein relates to an arrangement of interconnectedcomponents that are configured to facilitate data communication betweenone or more electronic devices, software modules and/or databases,whether available or known at the time of filing or as later developed.Furthermore, the communication interface facilitates data/contentcommunication via a collection of interconnected (public and/or private)networks that are linked together by a set of standard protocols.Examples of standard protocols may include, but not limited to,Internet® Protocol (IP), Wireless Access Protocol (WAP), Frame Relay,Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP),File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and the likes. Furthermore, any othersuitable protocols using voice, video, data, or combinations thereof,can also be employed. The processing arrangement uses the communicationinterface to access the computer network that will be described later.

Throughout the present disclosure, the term “computer network” as usedherein relates to a structure and/or module including interconnectedcomputing components storing user-viewable hypertext documents (commonlyreferred to as Web documents or Web pages). Furthermore, theinterconnected computing components form a distributed computingenvironment storing a distributed collection of interlinked,user-viewable hypertext documents accessible via the communicationinterface. Optionally, the wide area computer network can be implementedas client server architecture including client and server softwarecomponents which provide access to such documents using standardizedprotocols. For example, standard protocol for locating and acquiring Webdocuments may be Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the Web pagesare encoded using Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML). Optionally, thewide area computer network refers to a global network of computersencompassing future mark-up languages and transport protocols that canbe used in place of (or in addition to) Hypertext Mark-up Language(HTML) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for communication.

According to an embodiment, the present disclosure provides aninteractive user interface for the operations of content curation.Throughout the present disclosure, the term “interactive user interface”relates to an arrangement that allows for interaction between the userand the automated content curation system. The interactive userinterface allows for obtaining inputs from the user and providinguser-friendly, systematic, easily comprehensible, and customisablerepresentations of information to the user. As a result, the interactiveuser interface facilitates the user in better organizing, viewing,analysis, and processing of information related to various fields. Inanother embodiment, the interactive user interface described herein canbe easily implemented by way of the hardware system of the contentcuration.

Throughout the present disclosure, the term “one or more fields” relatesvarious field of technology such as (but not limited to) mechanical,electronics, data science, electrical, computer science and engineering,industrial and manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and soforth.

Throughout the present disclosure, the term “content” refers to anyinformation presented in a user consumable format. The content mayinclude information present in text files, presentation slides, portabledocument files, and so forth. Furthermore, the content may includeinformation present on the internet in the form of webpage and so on.Optionally, the content may include lists, tables, charts, graphs,slides, presentations, drawings, illustrations and so on.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the processingarrangement is configured to receive a selection of one or more contentfrom a plurality of pre-existing content associated with the one or morefields. The plurality of pre-existing content comprises either curatedand/or non-curated content. In an embodiment of the present disclosure,the processing arrangement receives the user’s selection of one or morecontent in the form of slides, images and so forth, from the pluralityof pre-existing content via the interactive user interface. Forreceiving the at least one content from the pre-existing contentassociated with one or more fields, the processing arrangement firstlyreceives the user’s selection of at least one section displayed on theinteractive user interface of the content curation system. A user mayfind the plurality of content by selecting section such as, but notlimited to, industries, practices, assets, case studies and so forth.Furthermore, in a particular embodiment, the processing arrangementreceives the selection of underlying subsection for retrieving therequired content and display it to the interactive user interface.Optionally, various fields of technology such as mechanical engineering,electrical engineering, electronics, biotechnology, pharmaceutical andthe likes are defined as underlying subsections for the various sectionsprovided at the interactive user interface of the content curationsystem. The content is maintained in a structured database from theplurality of databases, at the backend of the data curation tool,wherein the data/content such as tabular data, list of industries,packages, etc. are stored in a table and are queried. The images,thumbnails, slides and so forth are stored in blob storage, and a scriptis written to retrieve the blob storage URLs and store it in a SQL tablefor further easy retrieval.

According to another embodiment, the processing arrangement isconfigured to retrieve one or more content associated with the selectedsection and/or the selected underlying subsection and display the one ormore content at the interactive user interface. In a particularembodiment, the retrieved one or more content from the selection of atleast one section and/or subsections, are displayed as one or more of:the slides, thumbnails, images, and so forth. Optionally, the retrievedone or more content from the selection of section and/or underlyingsubsection may also be of the form of Microsoft® office document such asMicrosoft® power point presentation, spreadsheets, word files and pdf,plain text documents and so forth. In a further embodiment, theinteractive user interface of the content curation system enables theuser to scroll through the plurality of content displayed on the userinterface. The one or more content from the specific selected sectionsand/or subsections are only displayed. The processing arrangementoperates in such a manner that the load time of fetching the relevantdocuments and/or thumbnails is greatly reduced.

Optionally, the processing arrangement provides the blown-up version ofthe one or more content such as slide or thumbnail by receiving a clickon a certain part of the thumbnail by the user. In another embodiment,the blown-up version is shown at the user interface by receiving theselection of “I” button on the top right-hand corner of the slide. In afurther embodiment, the blown-up version may also be provided by theprocessing arrangement by simply positioning the cursor to the positionof the slide/thumbnails/images.

In an exemplary embodiment, the processing arrangement also enables theuser to fetch other metadata like “owner of the slide”, “any comments”and so forth by clicking on a certain section provided therein. In aparticular embodiment, the processing arrangement enables the user tofetch other metadata like “owner of the slide”, “any comments” and soforth by clicking on “I” button provided therein. selection of at leastone content. In further embodiment, the processing arrangement alsoreceives the selection of all the content. The selected content asdescribed herein may be in the form of selected thumbnails, images,slides, Microsoft® power point presentation, pdf, Microsoft® officefiles, spreadsheets and so forth. Herein, the processing arrangementenables the user to select the specific at least one content based onthe user’s requirements. The “blown-up” is referred to as zooming of theslides and images and also known as “front end zoom feature”. The frontend zoom feature is developed using Angular. Selection of a single orall slides is also done using Angular as front-end feature.

The processing arrangement receives a user’s selection of one or morecontent from the plurality of pre-existing content associated with theone or more fields. The pre-existing relevant content are retrievedfirst by selecting the section and/or the subsections and then afterselecting a particular section and/or the underlying subsection, theprocessing arrangement fetches and displays the retrieved one or morecontent. In an embodiment, the processing arrangement receives theselection of at least one content. In further embodiment, the processingarrangement also receives the selection of all the content. The selectedcontent as described herein may be in the form of selected thumbnails,images, slides, Microsoft® Power Point Presentation, pdf, Microsoft®office files, spreadsheets and so forth. Herein, the processingarrangement enables the user to select the specific at least one contentbased on the user’s requirements. The “blown-up” is referred to aszooming of the slides and images and also known as “front end zoomfeature”. The front end zoom feature is developed using Angular.Selection of a single or all slides is also done using Angular asfront-end feature.

According to the present disclosure, there is provided a system ofdeveloping a search database for automated content curation. The systemcomprises a processing arrangement comprising a communication interfacefor accessing a computer network and a database arrangement. Theprocessing arrangement as in accordance with the teachings of thepresent disclosure, is configured to store a plurality of slides relatedto one or more fields in the database arrangement and generate aplurality of thumbnails from the stored plurality of slides in thedatabase arrangement. The processing arrangement then extracts aplurality of metadata from the plurality of thumbnails, wherein theplurality of metadata is extracted by processing the generated pluralityof thumbnails through an optical character reader. The extractedplurality of metadata is thereby stored into a search database.Furthermore, the processing arrangement creates an index comprising ofassociations between the plurality of slides, the plurality ofassociated metadata and the generated plurality of thumbnails and storesthe created index in the search database. Herein the created index, theplurality of metadata is associated with the generated plurality ofthumbnails and the one or more slides. The processing arrangement isthen configured to curate a plurality of content from the index of thesearch database based on one or more search strings.

In an exemplary embodiment, the system as defined herein generallyprovides the “content explorer” service. For example, the user using thecontent explorer, can find and create custom decks from the slidesrepository in the database arrangement as provided by the contentcuration tool. The invention as described herein enables the users tofind and create custom decks in the form of a curated file and allowsuser to explore, search and identify data elements such as slides, andimages from various research papers, Microsoft® Power Point Presentationslides, word files, pdf, images and so forth from research andorganizational dataset. The invention also enables the users to searchfor a specific paper by its title and images embedded in theorganizational documents.

The processing arrangement is configured to generate a plurality ofthumbnails from the stored plurality of slides stored in the databasearrangement. In an embodiment, the “thumbnail” typically refers to asmaller image that represents a larger image. Thumbnails can representstatic images. Thumbnail images can also represent slides and othermedia. In many instances, it is important that a thumbnail accuratelyrepresents media with which it is associated. Specifically, thethumbnails are reduced-size representations of the original image,slides or of the other type of content.

According to an embodiment, the processing arrangement automaticallygenerates the thumbnails of the one or more slides from the plurality ofslides stored in the database arrangement. The processing arrangementuses an App-script based code that is written to generate thumbnails ofthe slides or images and store them in the database arrangement, forexample, a Google® drive or a cloud. The code works on creatingthumbnails of the source slides and storing them on a folder in thedatabase arrangement. Also, they will further be uploaded to thedatabase arrangement.

In accordance with another embodiment of the present disclosure, theprocessing arrangement generates a visual representation/thumbnails ofthe plurality of images or slides by extracting one or more features ofthe stored at least one slide or image via at least one of, but notlimited to, an object recognition algorithm, image recognition algorithmand text recognition algorithm. Furthermore, the extracted features arequantized thereafter to obtain a visual representation of the image.Herein, quantization is the process of constraining an input from acontinuous or otherwise large set of values to a discrete set. The oneor more extracted features of the received at least one image areconverted into a discrete set in the process of quantization of theextracted one or more features of the received at least one image. Inanother embodiment, the one or more extracted features of said imagecomprises at least color(s), parts and/or patterns of an object in animage, histogram of the oriented gradient in an image, convolutionalneural network and so forth. The system as described herein employs adeep learning algorithm that takes in an input image, assign importance(learnable weights and biases) to various aspects/objects/texts in theimage and be able to differentiate one image or slide from the other.Herein, the algorithm use image recognition and classification in orderto detect objects, texts and even faces etc. They are made up of neuronswith learnable weights and biases. The images/slides are primarilyclassified and clustered thereafter by considering the similarities. Theobject recognition in the plurality of slides/images are performedthereafter via the object recognition algorithm. Optionally, the imagerecognition is performed in the plurality of slides/images via an imagerecognition algorithm. More optionally, the images/slides are alsoprocessed through the text recognition algorithm. Other visual featuresmay also be used additionally or alternatively.

In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, there isdescribed a naming convention of thumbnail in the present disclosure.The naming convention of the thumbnail, used by the processingarrangement tries to capture all the information or metadata needed, tosue it further. In a particular embodiment, the processing arrangementreceives the user’s selection of the specific section that are requiredto be updated. The user herein, is being referred to as a team of thecontent curation system who are having a Google® sheet or a spreadsheetor any other type of document, with buttons and drop down to select thespecific section that needs to be updated. The team select the specificsection to be updated and it generates a set of thumbnails and store thegenerated set of thumbnails in a specified location (for example, aspecified drive location) of the database arrangement.

Furthermore, in another embodiment, the processing arrangement alsoenables the users to upload the generated thumbnails onto a databasearrangement, namely cloud storage. Uploading the generated thumbnailsonto a database arrangement triggers an automated cloud function scriptthat creates tables/databases storing the image and its associatedmetadata that would further be used. In another embodiment, theprocessing arrangement automatically triggers a cloud function scripthat creates tables/databases storing the images and its associatedmetadata.

After generating a plurality of thumbnails from the stored plurality ofslides, the processing arrangement thereafter extracts a plurality ofmetadata from the plurality of thumbnails, wherein the plurality ofmetadata is extracted by processing the generated plurality ofthumbnails through an optical character reader. Furthermore, theprocessing arrangement creates an index comprising of associationsbetween the plurality of slides, the plurality of associated metadataand the generated plurality of thumbnails and stores the created indexin the search database.

According to an embodiment, all the thumbnails generated from the slidesand/or images have some metadata associated with it and the metadata isbasically the content in the thumbnails including text, title,description, object, face and so forth. These are extracted and storedin a search database with the required indexing. The metadata ofthumbnails are extracted via an optical character recognition softwareor also known as optical character reader. In a particular embodiment,the metadata associated with the thumbnails are extracted and stored inan elastic search database. Optionally, the metadata associated with thethumbnails or extracted from the plurality of thumbnails are stored inan elastic search database with the required indexing.

In accordance with the present invention, the system as provided hereincomprises a processing arrangement that is configured to store theextracted plurality of metadata into a search database. In anembodiment, the search database is created to facilitate the retrievalof relevant content as desired by the user.

In a particular embodiment of the present disclosure, the processingarrangement is configured to triggers a function (for example, cloudfunction script) that passes the images or slides through a Vision APIbased Optical Character Recognition (OCR) pipeline to extract metadatafrom an image and stores all the metadata onto the elastic searchindexes. The image content level metadata is therefore generated.

In accordance with certain embodiments, an Optical Character Recognition(OCR) approach as described herein can be used to obtain all or portionsof one or more of the above metadata. Many OCR software modules whichoperate on numerous operating systems can be used to carry out the OCRprocesses described herein, and therefore, they will not be described ingreat detail. In accordance with another embodiment consistent with thepresent invention, OCR and/or pattern recognition techniques areutilized to capture metadata.

Since the process for metadata generation is automated, it becomesextremely crucial to prioritize which metadata to be focused on. Hence,the processing arrangement in accordance with an embodiment, employsElastic search libraries and tools to prioritize more on the Headings ortitles as opposed to other content.

As previously discussed, the thumbnails are generated, and metadata ofthe generated thumbnails are extracted thereafter. The extractedmetadata is then stored in a search database (or for example, a searchlibrary). The present invention involves creating an index thatcomprises associating the metadata with the generated plurality ofthumbnails and plurality of slides, wherein said associations areemployed to facilitate retrieval of relevant content namely, slidesand/or images in response to a user’s search query. Said created indexby the processing arrangement is then stored in a search database. In aparticular embodiment, the processing arrangement is configured to storethe created index in one or more of elastic search databases. Accordingto an embodiment of the present disclosure, the processing arrangementis configured to receive the user’s input for searching the relevant oneor more content. In an embodiment, the user’s input may be in the formof keywords, search strings, and so forth for retrieving out therelevant content from the plurality of slides and/images associated withthe one or more fields. The processing arrangement enables the users tosurf through the database arrangement to search at least a relevantcontent from the pool of data elements pre-existing in the databasearrangement. The user can search through the system’s content by surfingthrough the thumbnails available by a simple search mechanism.Furthermore, the search can be narrowed down to surf through a specificdatabase to narrow down the search results. In an embodiment, theprocessing arrangement employs the plurality of metadata extracted fromthe generated plurality of thumbnails to retrieve the one or morerelevant slides via a fuzzy logic, wherein the one or more relevantslides/images are retrieved in response to the user’s provided searchstrings. In a further embodiment, the search tool does a key word match/fuzzy logic on the metadata on the elastic search database and retrievethe result based on a custom rule which associates more weight on thetitle of a slide in order to improve ranking. As opposed to the commonconvention, where taggers and annotators sit to read through slides andextract relevant metadata in terms of the title or description of theslide, the disclosed system in a particular embodiment, uses vision (offthe shelf Google’s Vision API) to perform OCR and extract all thetextual content on the image(slide). This identifies image logos, andassociated details with some content that is not in standard textualformat, for example the logo of a ““Angular/Node JS””, the term Node JSis extracted and stored as metadata.

In an embodiment, the processing arrangement receives a user’s input inthe form of a search query or in the form of search strings. The one ormore keywords or query segments are extracted from said search query andare employed for retrieving relevant content from the search database.

In an embodiment, the query segments are stored in a meta-document. Inan example, the query segments for the search query “the best coldcoffee” are “the”, “best”, “cold”, “coffee”. As previously discussed,the processing arrangement creates an index comprising of associationsbetween the plurality of slides stored in the database arrangement, thegenerated plurality of thumbnails and its associated metadata.Optionally, the processing arrangement associates the plurality ofslides with the generated thumbnails and its associated metadata in theform of a list or a table and stores said list comprising theassociation between the plurality of slides, the generated plurality ofthumbnails and its associated metadata in the search database.Optionally, the created index is stored in an elastic search library inthe search database. More optionally, the index comprising theassociations between the plurality of slides, the plurality ofthumbnails and the associated metadata by way of a list, a table or anyother way of structured storing that represents said association.Beneficially, storing the plurality of slides corresponding to theplurality of thumbnails and its associated metadata makes it easier toretrieve the plurality of slides relevant to the user’s search query.

There exists a significant contribution of the created index inminimizing the time required to retrieve a relevant content in the formof slides/images from the search database. While searching for therelevant content, the system as described herein refers the plurality ofmetadata that is associated with the generated plurality of thumbnailsand the plurality of thumbnails are in-turn associated with theplurality of slides. Since the plurality of metadata and the pluralityof thumbnails are the reduced size version of the plurality of slides,the system while retrieving the relevant content consumes a relativelylesser amount processing power as the system has to retrieve arelatively smaller size content. Consequently, the system as provided inthe present disclosure is more efficient than the conventional relevantcontent retrieval systems.

In an embodiment, the processing arrangement stores the created index inone or more of the elastic search databases. The search query may or maynot be in the form of search strings. Furthermore, in an embodiment, theone or more content is ranked in accordance with the priority of theirrelevancy. Herein this embodiment, the processing arrangement applies acode and/or logic to show up the prioritized content higher in theranked list.

In accordance with the present disclosure, the processing arrangementcurate a plurality of content from the index of the search databasebased on one or more search strings. In an embodiment, the processingarrangement receives the one or more search strings via a user’s inputand retrieves the one or more slides via the index stored in the searchdatabase, in response to the one or more search strings.

Furthermore, in another embodiment, the processing arrangement receivesa user’s selection of the one or more slides from the retrievedplurality of the one or more slides and curate the plurality of contentby copying the selected one or more slides from a source location to acurated file at a target location, wherein a linking of the copied oneor more slides at the target location is established with the one ormore slides at the source location.

In another embodiment, the processing arrangement enables the users toedit and/or rearrange the slides/thumbnails in the preferred order. Theslides or thumbnails or the images and the likes can be dragged andrearranged by the user in a preferred manner.

Furthermore, the processing arrangement enables the user to add a blankdeck URL. It comprises validation on the URL as well to identify anyinvalid URLs entered by the URLs. Herein, the processing arrangementsaves the location of the compiled file.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the processing arrangementis configured to curate all the selected at least one content as a file,wherein the curated file includes a compilation of the selected at leastone content. Furthermore, the processing arrangement stores the compiledfile in a target location (target URL) of the plurality of databases.Herein, the system enables the user to name the compiled file that isbeing created for the user’s personal record. In another embodiment, thename of the compiled file is being stored by the processing arrangementin a SQL database to display on the landing profile page.

In a particular embodiment, the processing arrangement as disclosedherein triggers an API created at the backend using Google® App-script,that is configured to accept inputs such as array of images andmetadata, target deck URL. Furthermore, the processing arrangementprovides a custom script in the backend that works using Google® slidesto create the new deck or a new compiled file ofimages/thumbnails/slides, or append the selected slides to the end of anexisting deck or the compiled file. Said function is being executed viaa single click that triggers the API at the back end. In a particularembodiment, the aforementioned API has been created internally, with acustom code, that basically extracts the metadata associated with theimages (provided in the array input), and surfs through the backendrepository of the deck and further extracts the right slides based on aunique identifier (slide ID). It will be appreciated that the slides arethen copied from the source to the destination. Beneficially, any changein the source would reflect across all the target decks and ensure thecontent is up to date.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the processingarrangement is configured to dispatch a communication to the user withthe target location of the curated file. In an example, the user willreceive a mail from the content curation system with a link to thecurated file or also known as compiled file of the selected plurality ofslides. In a specific embodiment, the communication may be in the formof email or text, SMS and so forth.

In an embodiment, the processing arrangement is configured to receive afurther selection of the one or more slides and add the selected one ormore slides at an end of the curated file. In a specific embodiment, theprocessing arrangement receives the selection of case studies and addsthem at the end of the compiled file or the compiled deck. Furthermore,an array of the added content at the end of the curated file is createdby the processing arrangement, wherein the array acts as an index forthe added content. In a further specific embodiment, a table of casestudies is thus created that acts as an index table to all the casestudies added. A sub script in the API at the backend adds the casestudy slides/added content slides at the end, works on a slide linkinglogic to create an appendix table linking case studies to the respectiveslides as well.

According to an embodiment, the processing arrangement enables one ormore users to suggest changes in the one or more slides stored in thedatabase arrangement. In an embodiment, the system enables the users tosuggest changes or corrections in the form of comments on a particularcontent. Optionally, the processing arrangement is configured totransmit a response communication to the one or more users stating astatus of the suggested changes to the one or more slides. Moreoptionally, upon receiving the suggestions or comments made by the user,the processing arrangement automatically dispatches a communication tothe owner or administrator of the content about the suggested changesmade by the user and the location or link to the specific compiled fileor the deck or the slide/image/thumbnail from the plurality of contentor slides or images stored in the plurality of databases. In a specificembodiment, the communication may be in the form of email or text, SMSand so forth.

In a further embodiment of the present disclosure, an app-scriptfunction is provided that automatically create presentations based onthe images selected. Additionally, the present invention can also linkone or more case studies to create the index table. The metadata fromthe created presentations and documents are generated and it is beingdone via Vision API (application programming interface) based OCRpipeline. In a specific embodiment, the search mechanism for therelevant result is based on prioritization of data.

The present disclosure also relates to the method as described above.Various embodiments and variants disclosed above apply mutatis mutandisto the method.

Optionally, the method comprises receiving the one or more searchstrings via a user’s input and retrieving the one or more slides via theindex stored in the search database, in response to the one or moresearch strings.

Optionally, the method comprises receiving a user’s selection of the oneor more slides from the retrieved plurality of the one or more slidesand curating the plurality of content by copying the selected one ormore slides from a source location to a curated file at a targetlocation, wherein a linking of the copied one or more slides at thetarget location is established with the one or more slides at the sourcelocation.

Optionally, method comprises dispatching a communication to the userwith the target location of the curated file.

Optionally, the method comprises receiving a further selection of theone or more slides and adding the selected one or more slides at an endof the curated file.

Optionally, the method comprises creating an array of added content inthe curated file, wherein the array acts as an index for the addedcontent.

Optionally, the method comprises enabling one or more users to suggestchanges in the one or more slides stored in the database arrangement.

Optionally, the method comprises transmitting a communication to anadministrator of the one or more slides when the one or more userssuggest changes in the one or more slides.

Optionally, the method comprises transmitting a response communicationto the one or more users stating a status of the suggested changes tothe one or more slides.

The present disclosure also provides a non-transitory computer readablestorage medium, containing program instructions for execution on acomputer system, which when executed by a computer, cause the computerto perform method steps of a method of developing a search database forautomated content curation, the method comprising the steps of: storinga plurality of slides related to one or more fields in the databasearrangement, generating a plurality of thumbnails from the storedplurality of slides, extracting a plurality of metadata from theplurality of thumbnails, wherein the plurality of metadata are extractedby processing the generated plurality of thumbnails through an opticalcharacter reader, storing the extracted plurality of metadata into asearch database. The method steps further comprising creating an indexcomprising of associations between the plurality of slides, theplurality of associated metadata and the generated plurality ofthumbnails, storing the created index in the search database, andcurating content from the index of the search database based on one ormore search strings.

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Referring to FIG. 1 , there is shown a schematic illustration of asystem 100 of developing a search database for automated contentcuration, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.The system 100 comprises a database arrangement 102 and a processingarrangement 104. The processing arrangement further comprises acommunication interface 106 for accessing a computer network and thedatabase arrangement 102.

Referring to FIG. 2 , there is shown a schematic illustration of a flowdiagram of the content movement architecture of the automated contentcuration system 200, in accordance with an embodiment of the presentdisclosure. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the content isgenerally processed in backend maintenance overall deck backend, and theUser interface backend decks. The processing arrangement as described inthe present disclosure receives the user’s selection of the section, butnot limited to, industry content, practices content, unique content andso forth for the retrieval of the relevant content required by the user.In the section “industry content”, the processing arrangement providesthe knowledge related to various industries and clients such as industrylandscapes, overall capabilities, practice modified content, industrycontent and the likes. Furthermore, the processing may also receive theuser’s selection of the section -“practice content”, wherein thepractice content comprises the organizational studies such as practiceportfolios, practice specific assets, industry landscapes, overall demosand capabilities associated with a required field of technology orsocial or organizational purpose. Also, UI Backend further includesunique content that acquires custom content made across sub-industryverticals. The unique content comprises custom content made across subindustry verticals which is classified based on the related industry.The processing arrangement may also receive the user’s selection ofunderlying subsections of the section as provided above. The mastercontent comprises the content stored in the backend maintenance. Theadditional content comprises talks, webinars, workshops and so forth. Inan embodiment, the one or more content may be in the form of slides,images, thumbnails and so forth. The processing arrangement furtherreceives the selection of one or more content (thumbnail, slides,images) displayed by the thumbnail drive and enable the user to finalizethe deck as in accordance with user’s requirements. In other words, theprocessing arrangement is configured to compile/curate all the selectedcontent as a compiled file and store the compiled file in a targetlocation of the plurality of databases. After the selection, the contentcan be finalized in the finalize panel. The finalization of the contentgenerates final content relevant to the user in the desired format.

Referring to FIG. 3 , there is shown a schematic illustration 300 of aflow diagram of content change management of the automated contentcuration system 100, in accordance with an embodiment of the presentdisclosure. Beneficially, the present disclosure facilitates the user toprovide suggestions in the form of comments for the correction toprevent the content data from becoming outdated. Herein, the processingarrangement is configured to receive the user’s suggestion in the formof comments. Upon receiving the user’s comment, an automatedcommunication is transmitted to the owner or administrator of theparticular content on which the comment has been received. In anembodiment, once the owner act on the received comment and resolve thecorrection received, the processing arrangement will transmit a responsecommunication to the commenter regarding the status of the comment. Inan example, the status may provide the commenter whether his query hasbeen resolved or not. Furthermore, the content data in the plurality ofdatabases is updated accordingly. In an embodiment, the processingarrangement also enables the content to be changed with a newcollateral. Herein, the system simply receives the user’s suggestion viaan e-mail and the suggestion is then transmitted to the respectivecontent practice POC. Furthermore, the processing arrangement receiveinputs of the respective practice POC and update the one or more contentaccordingly.

Referring to FIG. 4 , there is shown a schematic illustration 400 of thesystem 100, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.The system comprises a user interface as a platform or app engine. Afterthe secured access to the system, the user can interact with theplatform for uploading the finished and/or the unfinished content in theform of a collateral in the Pick and Go mode of the system. In anembodiment, the Pick and Go mode of system includes a mode in thepresent invention in which the user is simply enabled to search for aparticular content and the relevant content is retrieved thereafter. Theuser is also enabled to search the Pick and Go mode to retrieve thepreviously uploaded finished and/or unfinished content. The user’saction of uploading or searching the in the Pick and Go mode triggersSQL queries in the cloud SQL to respond to the user’s action. Based onthe user’s action, the relevant content is either uploaded to thedatabase arrangement or retrieved from the database arrangement. In theExplorer mode, the user is enabled to search on the content present inthe form of images using the metadata of the content (images). Theuser’s search of the images triggers Elasticsearch database wherein thefinished and/or the unfinished content is stored along with theextracted metadata. In the backend, the content (in the form of decks orpresentations) is stored on the database arrangement. A thumbnailgenerator which is an Apps Script based API runs on the content togenerate thumbnails relevant to the content. The generated thumbnailsare stored in the database arrangement in the folders specified for thethumbnails. The folders specified for the thumbnails in the databasearrangement are linked to Google Cloud Service bucket to enable queryingof the thumbnails. The Google Cloud Service bucket provide thethumbnails to the Cloud Functions where the Vision API process thethumbnails generating the metadata and identifying the informationstored in the thumbnails. The processed thumbnails are provided to theBig Query which in turns provides the processed thumbnails to theElasticsearch database for identifying relevant content to the user inthe Explorer mode. After the identification of the relevant content, theuser clicks Deck Create on the platform that in turn triggers App ScriptAPI in the data processing arrangement which creates deck and stores thecreated deck in the database arrangement.

Referring to FIG. 5 , there is shown a schematic illustration of a flowdiagram of a method 500 of developing a search database for automatedcontent curation, in accordance with an embodiment of the presentdisclosure. At a step 502, the method comprises storing a plurality ofslides related to one or more fields in the database arrangement. Atstep 504, the method comprises generating a plurality of thumbnails fromthe stored plurality of slides. Thereafter at step 506, the methodcomprises extracting a plurality of metadata from the plurality ofthumbnails, wherein the plurality of metadata is extracted by processingthe generated plurality of thumbnails through an optical characterreader. At step 508, the method comprises storing the extractedplurality of metadata into a search database and at step 510, the methodcomprises creating an index comprising of associations between theplurality of slides, the plurality of associated metadata and thegenerated plurality of thumbnails, wherein one or more relevant slidesare retrieved in response to one or more search strings via saidassociations between the plurality of slides, the plurality ofassociated metadata and the generated plurality of thumbnails. At afurther step 512, the method comprises storing the created index in thesearch database. At step 514, the method comprises Curating a pluralityof content from the index of the search database based on one or moresearch strings.

Modifications to embodiments of the present disclosure described in theforegoing are possible without departing from the scope of the presentdisclosure as defined by the accompanying claims. Expressions such as“including”, “comprising”, “incorporating”, “have”, “is” used todescribe and claim the present disclosure are intended to be construedin a non-exclusive manner, namely allowing for items, components orelements not explicitly described also to be present. Reference to thesingular is also to be construed to relate to the plural whereappropriate.

1. A system of developing a search database for automated contentcuration, wherein the system comprises: a processing arrangementcomprising a communication interface for accessing a computer networkand a database arrangement, wherein the processing arrangement isconfigured to: store a plurality of slides related to one or more fieldsin the database arrangement; generate a plurality of thumbnails from thestored plurality of slides; extract a plurality of metadata from theplurality of thumbnails, wherein the plurality of metadata is extractedby processing the generated plurality of thumbnails through an opticalcharacter reader; store the extracted plurality of metadata into thesearch database; create an index comprising of associations between theplurality of slides, the plurality of associated metadata and thegenerated plurality of thumbnails, wherein one or more relevant slidesare retrieved in response to one or more search strings via saidassociations between the plurality of slides, the plurality ofassociated metadata and the generated plurality of thumbnails; store thecreated index in the search database; and curate a plurality of contentfrom the index of the search database based on the one or more searchstrings.
 2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing arrangement isconfigured to generate a plurality of thumbnails by extracting one ormore features of the plurality of slides via at least one of an objectrecognition algorithm, an image recognition algorithm, and a textrecognition algorithm.
 3. The system of claim 1, wherein the pluralityof metadata extracted from the plurality of thumbnails is stored in anelastic search database.
 4. The system of claim 1, wherein theprocessing arrangement is configured to store the created index in oneor more of elastic search databases.
 5. The system of claim 1, whereinthe processing arrangement employs the plurality of metadata extractedfrom the generated plurality of thumbnails to retrieve the one or morerelevant slides via fuzzy logic.
 6. The system of claim 1, wherein theprocessing arrangement generates a plurality of thumbnails via anapp-script based code.
 7. The system of claim 1, wherein the processingarrangement receives the one or more search strings via a user’s inputand retrieves the one or more slides via the index stored in the searchdatabase, in response to the one or more search strings.
 8. The systemof claim 7, wherein the processing arrangement receives a user’sselection of the one or more slides from the retrieved plurality of theone or more slides and curate the plurality of content by copying theselected one or more slides from a source location to a curated file ata target location, wherein a linking of the copied one or more slides atthe target location is established with the one or more slides at thesource location.
 9. The system of claim 1, wherein the processingarrangement dispatches a communication to the user with the targetlocation of the curated file.
 10. The system of claim 1, wherein theprocessing arrangement is configured to receive a further selection ofthe one or more slides and add the selected one or more slides at an endof the curated file.
 11. The system of claim 1, wherein the processingarrangement is configured to create an array of added content in thecurated file, wherein the array acts as an index for the added content.12. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing arrangement enablesone or more users to suggest changes in the one or more slides stored inthe database arrangement.
 13. The system of claim 1, wherein theprocessing arrangement is configured to transmit a communication to anadministrator of the one or more slides when the one or more userssuggest changes in the one or more slides.
 14. The system of claim 1,wherein the processing arrangement is configured to transmit a responsecommunication to the one or more users stating a status of the suggestedchanges to the one or more slides.
 15. A method of developing a searchdatabase for automated content curation, wherein the method comprises:storing a plurality of slides related to one or more fields in thedatabase arrangement; generating a plurality of thumbnails from thestored plurality of slides; extracting a plurality of metadata from theplurality of thumbnails, wherein the plurality of metadata is extractedby processing the generated plurality of thumbnails through an opticalcharacter reader; storing the extracted plurality of metadata into thesearch database; creating an index comprising of associations betweenthe plurality of slides, the plurality of associated metadata and thegenerated plurality of thumbnails, wherein one or more relevant slidesare retrieved in response to one or more search strings via saidassociations between the plurality of slides, the plurality ofassociated metadata and the generated plurality of thumbnails; storingthe created index in the search database; and curating a plurality ofcontent from the index of the search database based on one or moresearch strings.
 16. The method of claim 15, wherein the method comprisesgenerating a plurality of thumbnails by extracting one or more featuresof the plurality of slides via at least one of an object recognitionalgorithm, an image recognition algorithm and a text recognitionalgorithm.
 17. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of metadataextracted from the plurality of thumbnails is stored in an elasticsearch database.
 18. The method of claim 15, wherein the methodcomprises storing the created index in one or more elastic searchdatabases.
 19. The method of claim 15, wherein the method comprisesemploying the plurality of metadata extracted from the generatedplurality of thumbnails to retrieve the one or more relevant slides viafuzzy logic.
 20. The method of claim 15, wherein the method comprisesgenerating a plurality of thumbnails via an app-script based code. 21.The method of claim 15, wherein the method comprises receiving the oneor more search strings via a user’s input and retrieving the one or moreslides via the index stored in the search database, in response to theone or more search strings.
 22. The method of claim 21, wherein themethod comprises receiving a user’s selection of the one or more slidesfrom the retrieved plurality of the one or more slides and curating theplurality of content by copying the selected one or more slides from asource location to a curated file at a target location, wherein alinking of the copied one or more slides at the target location isestablished with the one or more slides at the source location.
 23. Themethod of claim 15, wherein the method comprises dispatching acommunication to the user with the target location of the curated file.24. The method of claim 15, wherein the method comprises receiving afurther selection of the one or more slides and adding the selected oneor more slides at an end of the curated file.
 25. The method of claim15, wherein the method comprises creating an array of added content inthe curated file, wherein the array acts as an index for the addedcontent.
 26. The method of claim 15, wherein the method comprisesenabling one or more users to suggest changes in the one or more slidesstored in the database arrangement.
 27. The method of claim 15, whereinthe method comprises transmitting a communication to an administrator ofthe one or more slides when the one or more users suggest changes in theone or more slides.
 28. The method of claim 15, wherein the methodcomprises transmitting a response communication to the one or more usersstating a status of the suggested changes to the one or more slides. 29.A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, containing programinstructions for execution on a computer system, which when executed bya computer, cause the computer to perform method steps of developing asearch database for automated content curation, the method comprisingthe steps of: storing a plurality of slides related to one or morefields in the database arrangement; generating a plurality of thumbnailsfrom the stored plurality of slides; extracting a plurality of metadatafrom the plurality of thumbnails, wherein the plurality of metadata areextracted by processing the generated plurality of thumbnails through anoptical character reader; storing the extracted plurality of metadatainto the search database; creating an index comprising of associationsbetween the plurality of slides, the plurality of associated metadataand the generated plurality of thumbnails, wherein one or more relevantslides are retrieved in response to one or more search strings via saidassociations between the plurality of slides, the plurality ofassociated metadata and the generated plurality of thumbnails; storingthe created index in the search database; and curating a plurality ofcontent from the index of the search database based on one or moresearch strings.